Gulf Coast Gauges

Tickfaw River at Montpelier water level

USGS gauge 07375960 · St. Helena Parish · Baton Rouge · NWS gauge MONL1

2.46 ft

gage height, Oct 23, 2026 at 2:30 PM CDT · 3 hours ago

Below NWS minor flood stage
10.5 ft
NWS action stage
12.0 ft
NWS minor flood stage
13.0 ft
NWS moderate flood stage
18.0 ft
NWS major flood stage
22.0 ft
Highest since 2002 (USGS)
25.84 ft (August 12, 2016)
Usual range
2.44 to 2.59 ft

USGS marks recent readings as provisional: they can be revised after review.

No National Weather Service alert covering St. Helena Parish was active when this page was generated (Oct 23, 2026 at 5:05 PM CDT). Alerts are issued and expire at any time; the current list is at alerts.weather.gov.

Last 7 days

2.4 2.7 2.9 Oct 17 Oct 18 Oct 19 Oct 20 Oct 21 Oct 22 Oct 23

Hourly averages of USGS readings. The shaded band is this gauge's usual range: the middle 80% of its readings since September 11, 2026.

How to read this gauge

Gage height is the height of the water surface above this gauge's own zero point, which sits at 86.88 ft NAVD88. It is not a water depth and not an elevation: add 86.88 ft to get the water surface elevation.

The flood stages are the National Weather Service's, on the same scale as the gage height; they are the NWS's references for this location, not estimates made here.

Daily highs and lows since September 11, 2026

2.4 2.7 3.0 2026-09-11 – 2026-10-23 · bars are daily low to high

Annual peaks since 1951

In 25 complete water years of comparable USGS records (since 2002), the highest peak was 25.84 ft on August 12, 2016. So far in water year 2027 (since October 1) the highest reading is 2.94 ft on October 6, 2026.

-5 25 56 86 117 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 2020 major 22 ft moderate 18 ft minor 13 ft action 12 ft Water year 1951: 100.68 ft on March 30, 1951 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1953: 103.93 ft on May 20, 1953 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1954: 99.09 ft on December 6, 1953 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1955: 101.20 ft on April 15, 1955 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1956: 100.42 ft on March 11, 1956 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1957: 99.28 ft on September 18, 1957 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1958: 100.46 ft on January 12, 1958 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1959: 100.43 ft on June 3, 1959 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1960: 98.41 ft on February 5, 1960 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1961: 102.32 ft on March 18, 1961 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1962: 104.41 ft on April 29, 1962 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1964: 101.17 ft on March 3, 1964 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1965: 102.15 ft on October 4, 1964 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1966: 103.62 ft on February 13, 1966 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1967: 102.91 ft on April 15, 1967 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1968: 102.31 ft on April 9, 1968 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1974: 108.31 ft on May 23, 1974 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1975: 102.34 ft on May 30, 1975 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1977: 106.18 ft on April 22, 1977 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1978: 102.99 ft on December 1, 1977 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1979: 105.85 ft on April 23, 1979 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1980: 104.24 ft on March 30, 1980 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1982: 99.31 ft on February 17, 1982 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1983: 108.10 ft on April 7, 1983 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 2001: 13.37 ft on June 7, 2001 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 2002: 13.38 ft on September 28, 2002 Water year 2003: 13.51 ft on April 9, 2003 Water year 2004: 14.91 ft on May 16, 2004 Water year 2005: 12.89 ft on February 1, 2005 Water year 2006: 8.18 ft on February 27, 2006 Water year 2007: 12.91 ft on December 31, 2006 Water year 2008: 12.74 ft on September 3, 2008 Water year 2009: 15.63 ft on March 29, 2009 Water year 2010: 13.21 ft on December 19, 2009 Water year 2011: 17.26 ft on March 9, 2011 Water year 2012: 12.84 ft on February 20, 2012 Water year 2013: 14.71 ft on January 10, 2013 Water year 2014: 14.14 ft on February 22, 2014 Water year 2015: 12.26 ft on January 5, 2015 Water year 2016: 25.84 ft on August 12, 2016 Water year 2017: 13.75 ft on January 22, 2017 Water year 2018: 13.70 ft on January 28, 2018 Water year 2019: 15.30 ft on December 28, 2018 Water year 2020: 11.09 ft on February 7, 2020 Water year 2021: 16.45 ft on August 31, 2021 Water year 2022: 14.13 ft on August 25, 2022 Water year 2023: 12.61 ft on February 10, 2023 Water year 2024: 11.28 ft on January 28, 2024 Water year 2025: 11.39 ft on May 8, 2025 Water year 2026: 13.12 ft on June 18, 2026 Water year 2027 so far: 2.94 ft on October 6, 2026 2016 2011 2021

Each dot is the highest gage height of a water year (October to September), from the USGS annual peak record, with recent years USGS has not published yet taken from its 15-minute readings and this site's own; hover a dot for its date. Dashed lines are NWS flood stages. Grey hollow dots (25 years) were measured on a different datum or at a different site, or before the gauge's datum last changed, so they are shown but not compared.

NWS historic crests

DateCrestAbove minor flood stage
August 12, 201625.84 ft12.8 ft
May 23, 197422.31 ft9.3 ft
April 7, 198322.10 ft9.1 ft
April 22, 197720.18 ft7.2 ft
April 23, 197919.85 ft6.9 ft
March 11, 201618.73 ft5.7 ft
April 29, 196218.41 ft5.4 ft
March 30, 198018.24 ft5.2 ft

The highest crests the National Weather Service lists for this gauge, as published. They can differ from the USGS annual peaks above: USGS records the year's highest gage height, which is not always the crest the NWS lists for the same flood.

Download the readings

tickfaw-river-at-montpelier.csv (CSV): every reading stored for this gauge since September 11, 2026, 4,047 rows, with time in UTC and Central, gage height in feet, and the USGS approval status.

Source. Gage height from the U.S. Geological Survey; flood stages and historic crests from the NWS National Water Prediction Service. This site is not affiliated with either agency.